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Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics. Madrid 2010

The goal of this 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (web site: http://conference.clancorpus.net/) is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics. Three parallel sessions will be held according to the following topics:

Pragmatics theories: meaning, role of context, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, etc.
Intercultural aspects of pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one language, lingua franca, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills
Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc.

Convenors:

Jesús Romero-Trillo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid); Istvan Kesckes (State University of New York at Albany)

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:
John Searle, University of California, Berkeley
Francois Recanati, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris
Deirdre Wilson, University of London
Istvan Kesckes, State University of New York, Albany
Raymond Gibbs, University of California, Santa Cruz